Title
Author
Notes
Grades
Lost and Found
Jim LaMarche
3 inter-related stories around finding what is lost
3-5
The Leaving Morning
Angela Johnson
Moving, packing up, leaving morning. Perfect for a unit on symbolism, "We left lips". Inferring, Connections.

A Color of his Own
Leo Lionni

primary
A Day's Work
Eve Bunting


All I See
Cynthia Rylant


Angels in the Dust
Margot Theis Raven
Dust Bowl
Intermediate
Arrival
Shaun Tan
Emmigration Wordless
Intermediate
Beatrice's Goat
Page McBrier


Big Red Lollipop
Kahn/Blackall

primary
Billy Twitter's Blue Whale
Marc Barnett

primary
Cajun through and Through
Tynia Thomassie
tolerance
intermediate
Christmas in the Country
Cynthia Rylant
family, tradition, memories

Do Not Open
Brinton Turkle


Duck
Randy Cecil

Primary
Elizabeth
Claire Nivola
Intolerance Holocaust
Intermediate
Enemy Pie
Derek Munson
friendship
Primary
Fly Away Home
Eve Bunting
homelessness
Intermediate
George's Garden
Gerda Marie Scheidl


Hey, Al
Arthur Yorinks


Mr. Belinskys Bagel
Ellen Schwartz


Osbert
Elizabeth Kimmel

Primary
Pezzettino
Leo Lionni

Primary
Recess Queen
Alexis O'Neli
bully
Primary
Ruthie...Not so Teeny Lie
Rankin


Secret Place
Rand

primary
Shaker Lane
Alice Provence


She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head
Kathryn Lasky
Women's Rights Animal Protection
Intermediate
Spork
Maclear/Arsenault


Swimmy
Leo Lionni


The Dot
Peter Reynolds






The Wall
Eve Bunting
Viet Nam

Wolf
Becky Bloom
Reading, perseverance

A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Philip and Erin Stead
Friendship, routines. Inferring, Connections, Character
K, 1, 2
My Brother Charlie
Holly Robinson Peete & Ryan Elizabeth Peete
How we are all the same and different, autism
K, 1, 2
Oink?
Margie Palatini
Judging others, things aren't always what they seem, did the pigs really plan the whole thing or did it just work out in their favor?